Through the Giant Apple..

She woke up and rubbed her eyes, that's strange, she thought, stories like this always end this way, its all topsy turvy to be starting out this way, but anyhow her alarm was ringing so she had not time to think about it, she had to go to work.  She went downstairs, patted her pet dinosaur on the head and opened the giant red apple that led out into the world.  It was rather odd that no-one had taken a bite of the apple it was rather big and juicy looking, but she was glad it had stayed that way, she preferred things clean and crisp!

She was wearing a bright purple and blue tie-dye ensemble.  She fitted right in. There had been a big renaissance in tie-dye recently.  After all it was only a matter of time before something as great as tie-dye caught off again!  She danced down to the canal and waited for the next boat to turn up.  She was glad to see a deck chair was still free, she got on. She loved this time of year, she took a deep breath in, ah, you could really smell the foxgloves in the breeze as you glided along.

She got off, happy to see her friends were already there.  "Hey Inger! Hey Hannif! Hey Lili! Hey Mike!", it was good to have them close by after all they had helped write this story. She couldn't stop to chat for too long though, the first activity of the work day, morning yoga was about to start and she was a little late, some things never change! After yoga they all went off eager to get on with their days work, looking forward to seeing each other at the concert that evening.  The Backstreet boys were doing a live ukulele score to the movie 'Back To The Future'.   She was surprised to find out some people have never seen the movie!

Inger went off to climb, she was a spectacular climber.  I'm not sure what she was climbing today but they were sure to hear about her feats that night, if not before, she had a sizeable fan base on social media.  Hannif was planning which 5 star restaurant/hotel to review, while shinning his champagne glasses for his next party.  He was a fantastic host, everyone thought so, but especially the Portuguese, they were his greatest fans.  Lili was working on her latest song, she wrote the most beautiful lyrics, they were so pretty people copied them onto notes and left them all over the city to remind people how wonderful things could be. She had a large following of wide eyed male musicians, who all wanted to collaborate with her, and for some reason especially if their name started with R.  Mike had in fact helped out with the Backstreet boys ukulele score, unsurprisingly they needed a lot of help, it was through him that they had tickets to tonights gig. But he was really famous for playing guitar, though his gigs were an exclusive affair, he only played for people who were deemed cool enough.  Unless you were wearing tie-dyed skinny jeans you weren't getting in! And she, she went off to write her next story, or rather finish this one..

After the concert she came back happy but exhausted and fell into a deep sleep. She had a very odd dream that night.  She dreamt that instead of tie-dye she was wearing only black, she didn't have a pet dinosaur, in fact no pets at all, her flat was too small! Instead of her bright red apple door she had to go through a square door and down some stairs.  Instead of going by boat to work she had to take a rather large vehicle with everyone jammed in, and it smelled like petrol not foxgloves, which in fact didn't smell like anything at all.  She went to work in a building equally as square as her door and sat there stiffly all day, with no yoga breaks, with lots of others doing the same. They weren't really sure why they were doing what they were doing, and if you asked the people they were doing it for, neither were they!  Everyone assumed someone up there knew the reason why, but the truth was no-one did.  And the strangest thing of all no-one danced anywhere.  She wondered what was wrong with them? Were they not happy?